The House GOP's Little Rule Change That Guaranteed A Shutdown

[kentuck]

http://talkingpointsmemo.com/dc/the-house-gop-s-little-rule-change-that-guaranteed-a-shutdown

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Late on the night of Sept. 30, with the federal government just hours away from shutting down, House Republicans quietly made a small change to the House rules that blocked a potential avenue for ending the shutdown.

It went largely unnoticed at the time. But with the shutdown more than a week old and House Democrats searching for any legislative wiggle room to end it, the move looms large in retrospect in the minds of the minority party.

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Here's the rule in question:

When the stage of disagreement has been reached on a bill or resolution with House or Senate amendments, a motion to dispose of any amendment shall be privileged.

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But the House Rules Committee voted the night of Sept. 30 to change that rule for this specific bill. They added language dictating that any motion "may be offered only by the majority Leader or his designee."

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[Buddha_of_Wisdom]

1. And that's why the blame squarely lies on Boehner and his band of idiots.

[Berlum]

5. "True. This whole stanking anti-American mess is our fault." - Teh Boehner & RepubliBaggers (R)n

[blkmusclmachine]

2. Hmmm.

[GeorgeGist]

3. Does Jack Daniels count ...

as his designee?

[cui bono]

4. So this blocks a "Discharge Petition" then? n/t

[ffr]

6. Don't think so. The discharge petition is designed to circumvent the speaker

From what I understand.

A discharge still has the uphill battle, even if it passes the house, of making it past one Ted Cruz.

[mountain grammy]

7. Republicans don't know a damn thing about governing, but they're great at dirty tricks..

always have been. Life's a game to these jokers and when they do get power, the only thing they work at is keeping it and getting more.

Talk about gaming the system, nobody does it better than Republicans.

[kentuck]

8. Yep.

[Faryn Balyncd]

9. C - - - O - - - U - - - P